1896 Fancy Drinks and Popular Beverages by the Only William

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LIQUORS AND RATAFIAS.

This famous liquor is manufactured best in Amsterdam by infusing curac:;:ao peel in very good brandy that has been sweet– ened with sugar syrup. The curac:;:ao fruit is a species of the bitter orange, that grows mainly in Curac;ao, one of the Lesser Antilles, north of Venezuela, and the greatest Dutch colony in the West Indies. 258. (.[urrant tlatafia. Fill into a large stone pot or jar four quarts of good brandy, two quarts of currant-juice-you obtain this juice by placing the pot with the currants within a larger vessel partly filled with water, which is heated until the currants in the smaller pot burst-add three pounds of sugar, a stick of cinnamon, some cloves; let it stand four weeks; stir daily; filter through flannel, and bottle. '259. (.[urrant .filctlJcglin. The juice of eight quarts of currants is mixed with twenty quarts of boiling water in which eight pounds of honey arc dis– solved; add one ounce of cremor tartari; stir well for a quarter of an hour; when the fermentation is over and the liquid is clear, add one quart of brandy; bottle at once, fasten the corks with wire, and place the bottles in the cellar; you may use the bever– age after six weeks. 260.